Humanitarian and emergency assistance
- Why the international community must collaborate to ensure equal protection is given to all ethnic, religious and cultural groups
- J. Stremlau / Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 1998
- Intolerance of diversity within states frequently explodes into mass violence. Without internal peace, the cooperation required to maintain peace among them and solve economic, environmental, public health, criminal, and other problem...
- The effects of institutional systems on humanitarian responses
- S.F Martin / Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2001
- Paper begins by exploring in the nature of forced migration, describing the various categories of migrants and the manner in which they overlap and share common characteristics and needs. The paper then goes on to outline brief...
- Is there a reality gap in UNHCR activities?
- J. Macrae / Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 1999
- Looks at UNHCR’s evolving policy with regard to reintegration of refugees in the context of wider debates on relief-development aid linkages, and of broader changes in international relations in the post-Cold War era. It is based...
- Text of the 1951 convention and text of the 1967 protocol relating to the status of refugees.
- Global Consultations on International Protection,, 1999
- Texts of the 1951 convention and 1967 protocol relating to the status and treatment of refugees.
- Humanitarian action as a tool of political engagement in Afghanistan
- Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2001
- Series of articles from the HPN Humanitarian Exchange focusing on experience of humanitarian intervention in Afghanistan Articles focus on The politicisation of humanitarian aid and its consequences for Afghans ...
- Benefitting the education of 30,000 Kenyan school age children in refugee camps
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2000
- This article discusses the aims and level of success of two programmes piloted in Kenyan refugee camps aiming to enrich education: an environmental education, and a peace education programme. Some of the projects aims were to: ...
- UNDP interventions in support of the reintegration of war-affected populations
- United Nations Development Programme, 2000
- The paper reports on the UNDP undertaking of a strategic evaluation to take stock of its experience in complex emergency situations and extract insights to improve the organization’s capacity to respond. The terms of reference fo...
- Humanitarian Report 1997
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 1997
- Report reflects the main developments and trends in the area of emergency and disaster assistance in the five years since the establishment of the DHA. The Report describes how the basic mechanisms of humanitarian coordination have ev...
- Insuffient measures taken by UNHCR to address violence against women in Tanzanian refugee camps
- Human Rights Watch, 2000
- Documents UNHCR's and the Tanzanian host government's failure to address violence against women refugees in a timely and effective manner, despite ample evidence that women's lives were in danger in their homes and in the general camp...
- How are issues of refugees, poverty and real development interlinked?
- P. Beaucage / Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2000
- This presentation pursues two areas of reflection concerning the limitations of development strategies, both of which result from observations of armed conflicts: one is what happens to refugees, displaced persons and the diaspora (in...
- Keeping Burundian refugee youths occupied for the future
- E. Lyby / Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2001
- Report concerns the evaluation of ongoing skills training programmes for the 10,000 young Burundian refugees entering adulthood each year in the refugee camps, with a view to expanding them into a wider programme based in the refugee ...
- Why coherence between humanitarian and political action may not provide the best strategy for relief
- J. Macrae; L. Leader / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2000
- Examines the idea of coherence between political and humanitarian action which emerged in the aftermath of the Rwandan experience. It analyses the evolution of the concept in the last decade and its implications for the relationship b...
- Internally displaced persons in Angola
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 1996
- Results of a 1996 mission to examine the situation of internally displaced persons.
- Internal Displacement: articles from Forced Migration Review
- Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 1998
- Short articles on internal displacement of refugees: Forced migration within national borders: the IDP agenda by Jon Bennett The Three Gorges: the unexamined toll of development-induced displacement by Martin ...
- The right to food in theory and practice
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999
- FAO (ed), contributions from different authors from UN, academia and NGO-sector. In this publication, the rights related to food are examined from both the human rights and the operational points of view. Distinguished human rights ex...
- Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities
- K. Doyle / microLINKS,, 1998
- Overview of the rapidly evolving practice of microfinance and microenterprise development in post-conflict situations Documents the surprisingly few preconditions these programs consider essential to initiate a microenterprise ...
- Literature review of humanitarian assistance interventions to complex political emergencies: more emphasis on cure than on prevention
- J. Gundel / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
- Conflict-precipitated human disaster has been a significant worldwide feature during the last decade, from 1989 to 1999. As complex political emergencies (which such politically caused disasters have been termed) proliferated, so did ...
- How life in a refugee camp affects gender, age and class relations
- S. Turner / United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 1999
- Focuses on how the relief operation’s policy of equality challenges older hierarchies of authority. Through an analysis of refugees’ representations of gender relations, relations between generations, and relations between p...
- Evaluates UNHCR's preparedness and response to the 1999 Kosovo refugee emergency
- A. Suhrke / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2000
- Report assesses UNHCR's response in relation to three criteria: the overall outcome: did the refugees obtain appropriate protection and assistance? agency criteria: did UNHCR meet its own standards for providin...
- Study covering the role of the role of NGOs in peace-building in Afghanistan, Liberia and Sri Lanka
- D. Hulme; J. Goodhand / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2000
- Assesses the contribution of NGOs to peace-building and the ways in which NGOs, and the donors who support them, might strengthen that contribution. The overall study attempted to assess the impacts of NGOs on peace and conflict. It f...
- Belize Red Cross Society
- In the Caribbean, the national Red Cross societies are assisted by the International Federation Secretariat, with regional offices based in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, with support from the Americas Zone Office based in Panama. The IFRC secretariat provides services that include international coordination of disaster relief, capacity-building of National Societi...
- Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
- Organisation working to build safe communities for vulnerable populations
- IRIN PlusNews
- PlusNews is the global online HIV and AIDS news service of the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). It is the most comprehensive source of original reporting on the pandemic, providing a professionally produced, one-stop information service for cutting-edge, but jargon-free news and analysis on HIV and AIDS in four languages - English, French, Portuguese a...
- Health Action in Crises, WHO (HAC)
- Through its Health Action in Crises project the World Health Organisation seeks to work with member states, international partners, and local institutions to help communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies, disasters and crises.
- PreventionWeb
- A product from the UN/ISDR PreventionWeb.net is a website aimed at increasing knowledge sharing on disaster risk reduction (DRR) issues. It is stated that it provides a common tool for both specialists and non-specialists interested or working in DRR to connect, exchange experiences and share information at all levels of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction: local...
- Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
- CRED promotes research, training, and information dissemination on disasters, with a special focus on public health, epidemiology, structural and socio-economic aspects. It aims to enhance the effectiveness of developing countries' disaster management capabilities as well as fostering policy-oriented research.
- National alliance for disaster risk reduction (NADRR) (NADRR)
- Indian platform for community-led disaster reduction initiatives
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) (UNISDR)
- Promoting links and the coordination of disaster reduction activities
- Center on International Cooperation, New York University (CIC)
- Research institute on international humanitarian response and global security
- Feinstein International Center, USA
- The Feinstein International Center's mission statement includes a commitment to develop and promote operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of people living in crisis-affected and marginalized communities who are impacted by violence, malnutrition, loss of assets or forced migration. It aims to work globally in partnership with nationa...
